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Xavi (middle) with Barcelona teammates Carles Puyol (left) and Lionel Messi (right) in December 2011. On 2 January 2011, in a league match against Levante, Xavi made his 549th appearance for the club in all competitions, matching the record held by Migueli. Xavi later became the player with the most appearances for Barcelona of all time. [44]
Goalkeeper Peter Shilton holds the record for the most competitive appearances. In association football, 52 players have played at least 1,000 official matches at all age levels. Regarding B teams and reserve teams, appearances for such teams are only included if made in the primary football pyramid and not in reserve divisions.
On 8 May, in the return leg, he featured in his 151st game, matching Xavi's record of most matches for one club in the competition. [178] On the final matchday of the season, he equaled Sepp Maier's record of most Bundesliga appearances for Bayern with 473 matches. [179] He finished the season by scoring 7 goals in 41 matches in all competitions.
Following the team's impressive 4–0 victory over FC Barcelona in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final clash on 23 April, he was lauded by many pundits for his all-around display and was credited as the key man in breaking up the tiki-taka football of national teammates Xavi and Andrés Iniesta; [23] in the final game of his ...
Purple Clover placed the episode on their list of "20 Funniest Episodes of Friends". [4] GamesRadar+ ranked "The One with the Football" the 24th best Friends episode. [5] Telegraph & Argus ranked it #103 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes. [6] Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy ranked it #104 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes. [7]
On 2 March 2014, Puyol surpassed Migueli to go second in Barça's all-time league appearances table, behind only Xavi, and scored the third goal in a 4–1 home win against Almería. [31] Two days later, although he still had two more years in his contract, he announced that he would leave Barcelona at the end of the season . [ 32 ]
Peter Shilton has made the most appearances, and is the only player to have played in over one thousand games. Chris O'Grady made appearances for 17 different clubs, while 49 players made their appearances for only one team. Frank Womack is the only outfield player who failed to score a goal in his appearances, while Arthur Rowley scored 434.
Xavi Quentin Shay Simons (Dutch: [ˈtɕaːʋi ˈsimɔns]; [3] born 21 April 2003) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, on loan from Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain, and the Netherlands national team.